** BANGLADESH. 15505, April 27 at *1559:24, Bangladesh Betar carrier on late, no time for tone or IS, or even TS, 1559:46 joining sign-on announcement in Urdu; fair with flutter (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. Firedrake, April 27 before 1300:
13795, fair at 1257, FD doggedly sticking to this frequency only while all the others remain replaced by CNR1 audio jamming:
16100, fair at 1251; none higher
15970, poor at 1251
15560, poor at 1251 // 16100
14700, poor at 1251
13830, fair at 1257; none in the 12s except:
12000, poor at 1258, not synch with 16100, and 1300 timesignal is 3 seconds late, now with CCI, Vietnam? This is presumably the earthquake emergency radio service rather than as jamming (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 5040, April 27 at 0534, today`s anomaly #1 is absence of the RHC tropical frequency during English hour; still overkill on 6010, 6060, 6125, 6165.
Anomaly #2: 15482 approx., April 27 at 1400, RHC riff as I tune by, that weak distorted spur again (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GUATEMALA. 4055, Saturday April 27 at 1126 in assertive Chinese! presumably preaching, with `inspirational` music background, fair signal at S9+18, from TGAV, Radio Verdad, whose SW license may have only a month or two left. Program schedule http://www.radioverdad.org/programaci%C3%B3n
mentions nothing in chino, but it`s one of several unexpected languages they really insert, a 700-watt station which may axually have been DXed in China (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDONESIA. 9526-, April 27 at 1303, VOI open carrier/dead air with flutter; 1304 join in progress news in English, undermodulated. Had noticed some special Japanese during previous hour (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 620, April 27 at 0540 UT, Spanish ad for an event mentioning 93.3, apparently an FM sponsor of it; hoped I had something other than XEBU Chihuahua city, since its own FM is 91.7, but after some federal PSAs for Diputados, Suprema Corte, ID as Chihuahua, La Rancherita. The 93.7 there per Cantú is XHBW, Magia Digital, whose AM is 1280. Maybe they are same group? Or just a crossover commercial (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 650, April 27 at 1155 UT, Mexican music, fading at 1156 during Radio 65 sung ID, polca. Tuning down the band, XETNT Los Mochis, Sinaloa, is the only XE still audible on lowband here, 12 minutes after our sunrise (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 660, April 27 at 0452 UT, early NA already playing on unID station, presumably the one which has been followed by big hum; but losing out by 0454 to `The Answer`, KSKY The Metroplex. Some chex after 0500 did not detect the hum, maybe no longer in effect? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 690, April 27 at 0642 UT, international exchange rates in Spanish, 0644 news about Tabasco. Main signal, with KTSM El Paso and KGGF Coffeyville OC more or less nulled, and peaks further east than most Mexicans I get. All adds up to presumed XEN, México DF with its news/talk format. There is only one XE further east, in Veracruz but it`s a Ke Buena, likely musical --- or not? IRCA shows XEAFA in Coatzacoalcos as News & Ranchera. Still, XEN most likely, especially if running 50 kW nites as claimed instead of 5. (IIRC, 690 used to be a major frequency from Cuba, but not any more.) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 710, April 27 at 0546 UT, béisbol with crowd noise, presumably a live late game if in Mexico too they are open-ended; loops SW and soon mentions Cuauhtémoc as one of the teams, so usual XEDP Chihuahua, breaking away from ranchera format. It`s almost local midnite in the UT-6 zone. Surely more nite games to come when it`s cooler around the diamond (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 720, April 27 at 0549, timecheck as ``48`` and temp as 18 grados, back to music; typical automated time & temp format at every break of XEDE Saltillo, Coahuila. Altho 50 kW WGN has as strong a signal as 250-watt(?) XEDE, WGN is totally nullable, avoiding slow SAH; not too far from collinear either, e.g. around Dallas, where listening to WGN must be quite a problem (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO [and non]. 1570, April 27 at 1142 UT, XERF with 6:42 timecheck on ``La Poderosa``, brief Efemérides = day in history with Col. Bogey whistling theme, 1144 federal and Coahuila state PSAs; 1145 Spanish music CCI grows apparently as KZLI Tulsa icoses its 50 watt PSRA per NRC AM Log to 1000 watts day at official sunrise there; but I can still hear at 1145 XERF mentioning some cumpleaños and at 1146 an instrumental-only version of ``Mañanitas``, unlike last time. Anyhow this seems to be a regular morning ritual for them. But in May, KZLI goes to day power at 1115 UT, and in June, 1100. Never mind the 50 watts: FCC AM Query shows PSRA is only 8 watts, limited by XERF every month except June when unneeded. Can anyone in Tulsa or even Catoosa really hear them on 8 watts atop XERF? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 2910, April 27 at 1118 UT, YL giving phone number, ``pide que se comunique``, missing person perhaps; then about something happening ``hoy a las 8 de la mañana``, brief bits audible at peaks between lightning crashes, typical morning news format of 970 x 3, XEVT, Villahermosa, Tabasco. Their sunrise today 1147, almost same as here, but they will lose only a dekaminute of darkness by June (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MICRONESIA. 4755+, April 27 at 1159 I monitor the carrier from PMA The Cross, which goes off about 1159:20* without any DTMF [dual tone multi-frequency] signaling tones being heard (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. KZLI, 1570, PSRA etc.: see MEXICO: XERF
** OKLAHOMA. WTFK? Six new wireless mikes have been donated by a benefactor to the drama department at Enid High School, and made good use of in a produxion of ``The Wiz``, UT Saturday April 27 at 0030v, which caused me to miss a Chaski-check this date. I understand that FCC is being pressured to assign some WL mike frequencies to other users, which could result in QRM in concentrated theatre districts, such as Broadway; no chance of that in Enid. Need to bring scanner to performances (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PAPUA NEW GUINEA. 7325, April 27 at 1157, Wantok Radio Light still in the clear but weak; stronger Magadan 7320 no problem. Talk and hymn, 1201 hymn, 1203 strange SFX, 1206 ``Old Rugged Cross`` but not to usual tune; 1215 sounds like a children`s drama (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TUNISIA. 7275, still nothing from IWT April 27 circa 0530. However, Rumen Pankov in Sofia, Bulgaria reports today: `` Radio Tunis seems is on the air only from 0300 on 17735, from 0400 on 7275 and from 0600 on 7335 but not in their evening from 1600 on 17735. But only on April 22 was heard 1800-1900 on 7225, 17735, MWs 585 and 684 - all in Arabic`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [and non]. 17530, April 27 at 1332, fair signal with HOA music is VOA Somali via VATICAN this hour only. Aoki shows 17530 keeps switching sites and languages later: 14-15 English via Botswana; 1600-1630 Sat Kinyarwanda via São Tomé; 1830-1930 French via ST; 1930-2030 French via Bonaire [what??? As A13!]; 2030-2100 Sat Hausa via Greenville.
Better check HFCC instead which shows 17530, daily u.o.s.:
1300-1400 Somali via Vatican; and no English at 14-15
1600-1630 Sat Kinyarwanda via ST
1630-1700 Fri Portuguese via Greenville since April 12
1700-1800 Portuguese via Greenville, ditto
1830-1930 French via ST
1930-2030 French via Greenville since April 18; and no Hausa Sat
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. Larry Will of Area 51 informs us about WORLD OF RADIO via 5110v-CUSB: ``Glenn, Allan went very long tonight, until 0156, so we're going to re-schedule World of Radio to 0200 UT Sunday on WBCQ. Happy DXing.``
Also: Saturday & Sunday 2330v on WTWW-2 9930; UT Sunday 0400 on WTWW-1 5830 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9330-CUSB, April 27 at 1349, no signal traceable from WBCQ, tho 9370 WWRB is strong enough. Still no 9330 at 1402, but 15420-CUSB is poorly audible with Saturday-only Brother Scare primitive organ music opening. 1626, now 9330-CUSB is audible with Brother Hembree, who is no less certain of his wacky beliefs than BS, but quite weak compared to 9370 and 15420 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. Firedrake, April 27 before 1300:
13795, fair at 1257, FD doggedly sticking to this frequency only while all the others remain replaced by CNR1 audio jamming:
16100, fair at 1251; none higher
15970, poor at 1251
15560, poor at 1251 // 16100
14700, poor at 1251
13830, fair at 1257; none in the 12s except:
12000, poor at 1258, not synch with 16100, and 1300 timesignal is 3 seconds late, now with CCI, Vietnam? This is presumably the earthquake emergency radio service rather than as jamming (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 5040, April 27 at 0534, today`s anomaly #1 is absence of the RHC tropical frequency during English hour; still overkill on 6010, 6060, 6125, 6165.
Anomaly #2: 15482 approx., April 27 at 1400, RHC riff as I tune by, that weak distorted spur again (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GUATEMALA. 4055, Saturday April 27 at 1126 in assertive Chinese! presumably preaching, with `inspirational` music background, fair signal at S9+18, from TGAV, Radio Verdad, whose SW license may have only a month or two left. Program schedule http://www.radioverdad.org/programaci%C3%B3n
mentions nothing in chino, but it`s one of several unexpected languages they really insert, a 700-watt station which may axually have been DXed in China (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDONESIA. 9526-, April 27 at 1303, VOI open carrier/dead air with flutter; 1304 join in progress news in English, undermodulated. Had noticed some special Japanese during previous hour (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 620, April 27 at 0540 UT, Spanish ad for an event mentioning 93.3, apparently an FM sponsor of it; hoped I had something other than XEBU Chihuahua city, since its own FM is 91.7, but after some federal PSAs for Diputados, Suprema Corte, ID as Chihuahua, La Rancherita. The 93.7 there per Cantú is XHBW, Magia Digital, whose AM is 1280. Maybe they are same group? Or just a crossover commercial (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 650, April 27 at 1155 UT, Mexican music, fading at 1156 during Radio 65 sung ID, polca. Tuning down the band, XETNT Los Mochis, Sinaloa, is the only XE still audible on lowband here, 12 minutes after our sunrise (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 660, April 27 at 0452 UT, early NA already playing on unID station, presumably the one which has been followed by big hum; but losing out by 0454 to `The Answer`, KSKY The Metroplex. Some chex after 0500 did not detect the hum, maybe no longer in effect? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 690, April 27 at 0642 UT, international exchange rates in Spanish, 0644 news about Tabasco. Main signal, with KTSM El Paso and KGGF Coffeyville OC more or less nulled, and peaks further east than most Mexicans I get. All adds up to presumed XEN, México DF with its news/talk format. There is only one XE further east, in Veracruz but it`s a Ke Buena, likely musical --- or not? IRCA shows XEAFA in Coatzacoalcos as News & Ranchera. Still, XEN most likely, especially if running 50 kW nites as claimed instead of 5. (IIRC, 690 used to be a major frequency from Cuba, but not any more.) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 710, April 27 at 0546 UT, béisbol with crowd noise, presumably a live late game if in Mexico too they are open-ended; loops SW and soon mentions Cuauhtémoc as one of the teams, so usual XEDP Chihuahua, breaking away from ranchera format. It`s almost local midnite in the UT-6 zone. Surely more nite games to come when it`s cooler around the diamond (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 720, April 27 at 0549, timecheck as ``48`` and temp as 18 grados, back to music; typical automated time & temp format at every break of XEDE Saltillo, Coahuila. Altho 50 kW WGN has as strong a signal as 250-watt(?) XEDE, WGN is totally nullable, avoiding slow SAH; not too far from collinear either, e.g. around Dallas, where listening to WGN must be quite a problem (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO [and non]. 1570, April 27 at 1142 UT, XERF with 6:42 timecheck on ``La Poderosa``, brief Efemérides = day in history with Col. Bogey whistling theme, 1144 federal and Coahuila state PSAs; 1145 Spanish music CCI grows apparently as KZLI Tulsa icoses its 50 watt PSRA per NRC AM Log to 1000 watts day at official sunrise there; but I can still hear at 1145 XERF mentioning some cumpleaños and at 1146 an instrumental-only version of ``Mañanitas``, unlike last time. Anyhow this seems to be a regular morning ritual for them. But in May, KZLI goes to day power at 1115 UT, and in June, 1100. Never mind the 50 watts: FCC AM Query shows PSRA is only 8 watts, limited by XERF every month except June when unneeded. Can anyone in Tulsa or even Catoosa really hear them on 8 watts atop XERF? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 2910, April 27 at 1118 UT, YL giving phone number, ``pide que se comunique``, missing person perhaps; then about something happening ``hoy a las 8 de la mañana``, brief bits audible at peaks between lightning crashes, typical morning news format of 970 x 3, XEVT, Villahermosa, Tabasco. Their sunrise today 1147, almost same as here, but they will lose only a dekaminute of darkness by June (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MICRONESIA. 4755+, April 27 at 1159 I monitor the carrier from PMA The Cross, which goes off about 1159:20* without any DTMF [dual tone multi-frequency] signaling tones being heard (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. KZLI, 1570, PSRA etc.: see MEXICO: XERF
** OKLAHOMA. WTFK? Six new wireless mikes have been donated by a benefactor to the drama department at Enid High School, and made good use of in a produxion of ``The Wiz``, UT Saturday April 27 at 0030v, which caused me to miss a Chaski-check this date. I understand that FCC is being pressured to assign some WL mike frequencies to other users, which could result in QRM in concentrated theatre districts, such as Broadway; no chance of that in Enid. Need to bring scanner to performances (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PAPUA NEW GUINEA. 7325, April 27 at 1157, Wantok Radio Light still in the clear but weak; stronger Magadan 7320 no problem. Talk and hymn, 1201 hymn, 1203 strange SFX, 1206 ``Old Rugged Cross`` but not to usual tune; 1215 sounds like a children`s drama (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TUNISIA. 7275, still nothing from IWT April 27 circa 0530. However, Rumen Pankov in Sofia, Bulgaria reports today: `` Radio Tunis seems is on the air only from 0300 on 17735, from 0400 on 7275 and from 0600 on 7335 but not in their evening from 1600 on 17735. But only on April 22 was heard 1800-1900 on 7225, 17735, MWs 585 and 684 - all in Arabic`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [and non]. 17530, April 27 at 1332, fair signal with HOA music is VOA Somali via VATICAN this hour only. Aoki shows 17530 keeps switching sites and languages later: 14-15 English via Botswana; 1600-1630 Sat Kinyarwanda via São Tomé; 1830-1930 French via ST; 1930-2030 French via Bonaire [what??? As A13!]; 2030-2100 Sat Hausa via Greenville.
Better check HFCC instead which shows 17530, daily u.o.s.:
1300-1400 Somali via Vatican; and no English at 14-15
1600-1630 Sat Kinyarwanda via ST
1630-1700 Fri Portuguese via Greenville since April 12
1700-1800 Portuguese via Greenville, ditto
1830-1930 French via ST
1930-2030 French via Greenville since April 18; and no Hausa Sat
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. Larry Will of Area 51 informs us about WORLD OF RADIO via 5110v-CUSB: ``Glenn, Allan went very long tonight, until 0156, so we're going to re-schedule World of Radio to 0200 UT Sunday on WBCQ. Happy DXing.``
Also: Saturday & Sunday 2330v on WTWW-2 9930; UT Sunday 0400 on WTWW-1 5830 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9330-CUSB, April 27 at 1349, no signal traceable from WBCQ, tho 9370 WWRB is strong enough. Still no 9330 at 1402, but 15420-CUSB is poorly audible with Saturday-only Brother Scare primitive organ music opening. 1626, now 9330-CUSB is audible with Brother Hembree, who is no less certain of his wacky beliefs than BS, but quite weak compared to 9370 and 15420 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
